I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and… — Ann M. Martin Copy Share Image
To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I am Mavis Elizabeth Betterly. I am used to hard work. I can run a household better than Mrs. Oblinger ever could.… — Caroline Starr Rose Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is an escape from the jail of the self, leading to the ultimate adventure--seeing life through the eyes of another.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I do interviews and signings and readings and all of these people just hang off my every word. And then I go… — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to… — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
There's a lot of things that are said on the American Idol message board. I quit reading them because most of the… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that… — Michael Koryta Copy Share Image
I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm very always saddened by the fact that people aren't buying newspapers. They may be reading the news online, but the depth,… — Kathy Eldon Copy Share Image
There was one moment, and it happened in school. I had a big final exam - we were supposed to write a… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
“Learning to read gave us a true oasis, salvation, in the same way that coming to know Jesus or the Buddha might… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I've always thought that good teaching is about illumination. Sure, we teach things kids might not know, but a lot of the… — R.J. Palacio Copy Share Image
As a youth, I always did a good deal of reading in the summer months, having suffered since birth from an allergy… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
If you walked around like David Bowie in 1973 in Reading, you'd get beaten up. The 1970s in a small town was… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually… — Marilyn Jager Adams Copy Share Image
Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading what a good shot is, based on time and score of the game, based on the shot clock, based on my… — Russell Westbrook Copy Share Image
I was a very sickly kid and suffered from chronic pneumonia, which is why we moved to the warm southern climate. I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
Explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands: He didn't say… — Richard Darman Copy Share Image
But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence… — Ho Chi Minh Copy Share Image
I would never require anyone to read any book. That seems antithetical to why we read - which is to choose a… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
[Reading Swing Time] made me a feel a little bit like when I used to read David [Foster] Wallace. Like, "I can't… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
I do lots of reading and speaking at many universities about literature and also about politics, which is as much a part… — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
Mr. Kaplan is the first traveler to take us on a journey to the jagged places where these tectonic plates meet, and… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I try not to think too much about an audience when I'm writing the first draft of a book - at that… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you're basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this… — Ben Feldman Copy Share Image
The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its… — Augustus Hare Copy Share Image
We're into the era of desktop bureaucracy, where people sit at computers building websites and analyzing data rather than listening or reading. — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
I [read] "The Book of Unknown Americans," which is by a friend of mine, Cristina Henriquez, and is about two Latino, immigrant… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
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